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Rev Dr Konstantinos Terzopoulos, ThD, MDiv and BA
Charles J Terss

Priest, Theologian, Scholar, Byzantine Musicology

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I. Personal Profile

Born 1961, in East St. Louis, Illinois. Raised in St. Louis, Missouri.

Citizenship, United States of America; Hellenic Republic. ^

II. Career History

A. Greek Orthodox Priest with the level of oikonomos meta staurou serving the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America with leave to Autocephalous Church of Greece—September 1990 to Present.

Autocephalous Church of Greece

• August 2007 to present, Metropolitinate of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina, Aegina Island, Greece
• August 2004 to September 2005, Metropolitinate of Mesogaeas and Lavreotikes, Attica, Greece
• 2002 to 2004, Monastery of Holy Trinity, St Nektarios, Aegina Island, Greece
• 2002-2003, Church of All Saints of Aegina, Aegina Island, Greece
• 1997-2002, St. Demetrios, Paleo Psychiko, Athens, Greece

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

• September 2005 to July 2007, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Maitland, Florida, United States
• 1995-1997, Annunciation Cathedral, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• 1992-1995, St. Nicholas, Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
• 1990-1992, St. Vasileios, Peabody, Massachusetts, United States

Roles and Responsibilities

• Priestly, pastoral and liturgical duties, inspiration, pastoral care
• Weekly sermons and addresses to larger and smaller groups
• Weekly and Monthly Pastoral Community Publications
• Organization of Catechetical and Greek language schools
• Fund raising
• Developed liturgical music program and materials for Greek Orthodox Diocese of Atlanta Summer camps (1993-1997)

B. Adjunct instructor of Byzantine ecclesiastical chant at Hellenic College, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology at Brookline, Massachusetts, 1990-1992.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Taught graduate and undergraduate students ^

III. Education and Skills

National and Capodestrian University of Athens, Greece

• 1988 - 1990 and 1998 - 2000: Doctor of Theology in Byzantine Musicology “Aristos” (“With Excellence”)
• Dissertation: Ho protopsaltes tes tou Christou megales ekklesiasias, Konstantinos Byzantios, kai he symbole tou ste psaltike techne
• Professors: Gregorios Th. Stathis (Byzantine Musicology), P. B. Paschos (Byzantine Hymnography) and Vlas. Pheidas (Byzantine and Church History)

Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts

• 1985 - 1988: Master of Divinity “With High Distinction”
• Concentrations: Seminars in Orthodox Hymnology and Byzantine Ecclesiastical Chant
• Other activities: Instructional assistant to then professor of Byzantine Chant, Savas J. Savas. Coordinator of student readers and chanters’ choirs for daily worship services in Holy Cross campus chapel

Hellenic College, Brookline, MA

• 1981 - 1985: BA “With Distinction”
• Concentrations: Religious studies and a minor in Greek language
• Other activities: Special awards for papers in Byzantine History and Modern Hellenism; Instructional assistant to then professor of Byzantine Chant, Savas J. Savas; Assistant coordinator of student readers and chanters’ choirs for daily worship services in Holy Cross campus chapel

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois

• 1980 - 1981: began music performance program; instruments: piano, guitar and percussives ^

Computer Skills and Technologies

In addition to the requisite scholarly, linguistic and research skills, Fr Constantine makes extensive use of the following computer applications and technology:

Word processing and page layout

MS Word™, Power Point™, Nisus Writer Express™, Mellel™, Adobe Acrobat™, Adobe InDesign™, Adobe PageMaker™, Macromedia Fontographer™, Macromedia Dreamweaver™, Macromedia Fireworks™, FontLab™ and a little QuarkXpress™

In the process completing various stages of the Byzantine Music font project Fr Constantine has acquired remedial knowledge of the following computer technologies related to font development and application

PostScript™, TrueType™, OpenType™, UniCode Standard™, and very basic XML ^

IV. Awards and Societies

Grants and Awards

Grants

June 2004. Grant paying from the Music and Letters Trust

for travel to Lillafüred, Hungary and the Cantus Planus Study Group of the International Musicological Society (IMS) 23-28 August 2004 Conference. The paper “Observations on the Exegematic Notation through the Prism of the MS Exegesis of the Protopsaltes of the Great Church, Konstantinos Byzantios: An Example” was presented

November 2004 — Konstantinos Byzantios typika publication

Patriarchal Institute of Patristic Studies, Mone Vlatadon, Thessalonike, for the synoptic and critical publication of the Konstantinos Byzantios liturgical typika, with electronic editions to be published in theLeitourgika Vlatadon series

August 2001 — one-time grant

Taylor Grant, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, for travel to the New York Public Library Slavic and Baltic Division to study first hand a rare Neofit Rilski published Slavo-Bulgarian Tipik

September 1999 — one year grant

Taylor Grant, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, assistance to cover costs in the preparation of doctoral dissertation

October 1997 — one-time grant

Taylor Grant, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, to cover travel expenses to the Patriarchate of Constantinople and Mount Athos for the purpose of research in manuscript and archival library collections

August 1988 - June 1990 — two-year grant

Taylor Grant, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, for living and study expenses abroad

Awards (select)

1. Life membership to the National Forum of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians conferred in May 1988
2. 23 February 1986: Pallas Memorial Scholarship for excellence in Byzantine Music performance
3. May 1984: Constantine Marantis Memorial Prize for research paper submitted in Modern Hellenism
4. May 1983: scholarship award for research paper submitted in Byzantine History

Membership in academic societies

Societies

• National Forum of Greek Orthodox Musicians (since 1988)
• American Musicological Society (since 2000)
• American Academy of Religion (since 2000)
• International Musicological Society (since 2001)
• American Society for Byzantine Music and Hymnology; on Board of Advisors (since inception) ^

V. Activities and Publications

Lectures, Papers, and Videos (select)

1. 10-14 June 2009. “Patriarchal Chant Rubrics from Konstantinos Byzantios’ Notebook for the Typikon: 1806-1828,” presented at the Second International Conference of the American Society of Byzantine Music and Hymnology: Byzantine Musical Culture. Presentation here.
2. 10-15 September 2007. “Online Acces to Manuscripts of Byzantine Chant,”co-written with Louis W. G. Barton (Oxford) and Julia Craig-McFeely (London College). Presented at the frist conference of the American Society for Byzantine Music and Hymnology: Byzantine Culture. Paeania, Attica, Greece
3. 27-28 June 2006: Neumes 2006 Oxford Conference on Computerised Transcription of Medieval Chant Manuscripts held at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, UK. “Opportunities for definitive photography of Byzantine chant mss in Orthodox monasteries and libraries of Greece”
4. 19-22 November 2005: Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature held at Philadelphia, PA, United States. Presentation to Eastern Orthodox Study Group, “Tradition and Change—Liturgical Chant and Music in the Greek Orthodox Christian Experience in America: Early European Origins”
5. 23-28 August 2004: 12th Conference of the International Musicological Society Study Group ‘Cantus Planus’, Lillafüred, Hungary: “Observations on the exegematic notation through the prism of the ms exegesis of the protopsaltes of the great church, konstantinos byzantios: an example”; visual presentation available here >
6. 15-19 October 2003: Institute of Byzantine Musicology of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, Athens, Greece. Second Musicological and Psaltic Conference, Theoria and Praxis of the Psaltic Art: Genera and Categories of Byzantine Psaltic Music: “Poikilia terpousa: the melic composition in the Anthologia Sticherariou of the protopsaltes of the Great Church of Christ, Konstantinos Byzantios”
7. 23-24 July 1993: Annual meeting of the Southeastern Federation of Greek Orthodox Choirs and Musicians, Mobile, Alabama: “The hymnographic shape of the Divine Liturgy”
8. February 1993: Annual conference of Friends of Byzantine Music held at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Washington, D. C.: “Supplicating the Queen: the place and content of the two kanons of supplication to the Theotokos” and “Expression and interpretation of Byzantine chant notation: a technical presentation”
9. 18 October 1992: Meeting of the Fayetteville, North Carolina choir group: “Word and sound in our Orthodox worship”
10. 3 April 1991: Position paper presented to organizational committee for Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Clergy-Laity Conference: “The musical aspect in liturgical renewal and reform in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America”
11. 3 April 1991: Presentation to group of instructors and students at Hellenic College, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA: “Some historical examples of the translation and transcription of our psaltic art”
12. May 1991: student gathering of the Boston Theological Institute in the Chapel of the Holy Cross on the campus of Hellenic College, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA: “The rich psaltic tradition of the Greek Orthodox Church: a musical presentation”
13. 31 August - 1 September 1985: Annual Festival of the St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, St Louis, Missouri: “A presentation of the eight mode system of chant used by the Greek Orthodox Church today” ^

Television appearances ^

October 2003: “Orthodoxia kai synhronos kosmos: ho Hagios tes hypomones.” Television pilgrimage filmed by TV100 from Thessalonike

March 1990: Two filmed presentations made by GOTELECOM, the telecommunications arm of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, in the series Holy Cross Live! which airs nationally via cable television: “Music for our souls: Orthodox hymnology” (two parts)

1. Music for our souls: Orthodox hymnology (part one)
2. Music for our souls: Orthodox hymnology (part two) ^

Recordings and Performances ^

1987-88, Boston: Involved in the planning and recording sessions of “A Scent of Spiritual Fragrance”, a recording of the Byzantine student choir of Hellenic College, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline MA, Romanos o Melodos. In addition to this digital recording made at Berkley School of Music in Boston, the student choir would perform throughout the year at special events in the life of the school both on and off campus

Athens, Greece, 1988 to present: performing member of the Choir of Chanters Maïstores tes Psaltikes Technes (Masters of the Psaltic Art), established and directed by Prof. Gregorios Th. Stathis. Select recording and performances include the following:

1. 18 October 2004. Athens: old Hall of the Capodistrian University of Athens. At the presentation of honourary doctorates to Kenneth Levy and Miloš Velimirović
2. 6 April 2003. Aegina Island: Church of the Entrance of the Theotokos. “Dramatourgia, etoi akolouthia tes Klimakos ton Areton tou hagiou Ioannou tou Sinaïtou.” With the Maïstores of the Psaltic Art and Gregorios Stathes as director
3. 21 December 2001. Athens. Megaro Mousikes: Asmatic service “Trithekte” and the Kontakion of the Nativity of Christ
4. 14 December 2001. Athens, Church of Hagia Eirene Aiolou: Asmatic service “Trithekte” and the Kontakion of the Nativity of Christ
5. 16 November 2001. Pannychis at the Megaron Mousikes Athenon, Athens, Greece
6. 3 November 2001. Athens, formal hall of the University of Athens: enarxis of the first pan-hellenic conference on the psaltic art
7. Athens, 2000: Germanos of New Patræ, Number 7 in the series of recordings of the Institute of Byzantine Musicology Byzantine and post-Byzantine Composers
8. 22 April 2000: Anatolika Antiphona III. The Maïstores with the Choir of chanters St John of Damascus of the Theological School of Balamant, Lebanon at the Megaron Mousikes Athenon, Athens, Greece
9. 30 January 1999. Athens, formal hall of the University of Athens: formal celebration of the Three Hierarchs
10. 12 November 1993. Athens, formal hall of the University of Athens. Eighth musicological study: “Parthenios hieromonachos Meteorites”
11. 31 March 1990. Trikala: participation in the 600 year anniversary of the Great Meteoron: “Meteoritika Psalmata”
12. 1990. Athens. Recording of the album “Meteora ta hiera — Meteora Sacra”. Upon the 600-year anniversary of the Great Meteoron.
13. 26 November 1989. Aegio, metropolitan church Phaneromenes: concert organized by the local society Philon Byzantines Mousikes
14. 13 May 1989. Great Meteoron. Vigil
15. Athens, Archaiologike hetaireia, 7 December 1988, Hymnographemata tou Gerontos Gerasimou Mikragiannanitou (Hymns written by the elder Gerasimos Mikragiannanite ^

Articles, Publications, Translations, internet presence and Printed Music ^

1. “Patriarchal Chant Rubrics from Konstantinos Byzantios’ Notebook for the Typikon: 1806-1828.” Presented at the Second International Conference of the Society of Byzantine Music and Hymnology: Byzantine Musical Culture—Thurs., 11 June 2009, Filippos Nakas Centre (Paiania), 12:05 PM.
2. Review of Constantin Floros’ Introduction to Early Medieval Notation (Michigan 2005) in Speculum 84:3 ( July 2009), pgs. 707-708.
3. “Anekdota troparia sto cheirographo ar. 4 tes Gennadeiou bibliothekes tes Amerikanikes Scholes Klassikon Spoudon, Athena”, co-written with Spyridon Kontogiannes. Accepted for publication in the periodical Symbole
4. “Observations on the Exegematic Notation through the Prism of the MS Exegesis of the Protopsaltes of the Great Church, Konstantinos Byzantios: An Example”, Papers Read at the 12th Meeting of the IMS Study Group CANTUS PLANUS: Lillafüred, Hungary, 2004. Aug. 23-28. Budapest: Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2006, 123-150
5. “Poikilia Terpousa: he melopoiïa sten Anthologia Sticherarioou tou Protopsaltou tes tou Christou Megales Ekklesias Konstantinou Byzantiou (30 Iouniou 1862).” Theoria kai Praxe tes Psaltikes Technes: ta gene kai ta eide tes byzantines melopoiïas—Praktika b' diethnous synedriou mousikologikou kai psaltikou: Athena, 15-19 Oktobriou 2003. Athena 2006, 311-333
6. “Some notes on the Slavic translation of Konstantinos Byzantios’ Typikon Ekklesiastikon of the Great Church of Christ”. Theologia 75.2 (Ioulios-Dekembrios 2004), 495-527
7. Arga Aposticha for the Great Vespers of the 3 September commemoration of the translation of the relics of our father among the Saints, Nektarios, bishop of Pentapolis the wonderworker (Aegina 2004)
8. Ho protopsaltes tes tou Christou megales ekklesias, Konstantinos Byzantios, kai he symbole tou ste psaltike techne (The protopsaltes of the Great Church of Christ, Konstantinos Byzantios, and his contribution to the psaltic art). Meletai 9. Institute of Byzantine Musicology of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, 2004. [See right sidebar above to order online]
9. “Some notes on the Slavic translation of Konstantinos Byzantios’ Typikon Ekklesiastikon of the Great Church of Christ,” Theologia 75.2 (July-December 2004), 495-527.
10. Arga Aposticha for the Great Vespers of the 9 November commemoration of our father among the Saints, Nektarios, bishop of Pentapolis the wonderworker (Aegina 2003)
11. Review in Greek of the publication Matthaiou tou Kamariotou. Kanones eis ten Metamorphosin (Sacred Monastery Pantokratoros, Mount Athos, 2002) in the periodical Symbole eis ten taxin tes orthodoxou latreias: epitheoresis tou ekklesiastikou typikou (Athens: Jan 2003, teuchos 1), 83-84
12. Review in English of the publication Matthaiou tou Kamariotou. Kanones eis ten Metamorphosin (Sacred Monastery Pantokratoros, Mount Athos, 2002): Greek Orthodox Theological Review 46:3-4 (2001), 381-85
13. Translation into English of all texts in the booklet container accompanying the CD, Gregorios Stathis, The Maestors of the Psaltic Art, Beloved Hymns: the most beloved Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical hymns (Athens 2002)
14. Review article in English of the publication The Study of Medieval Chant: Paths and Bridges, East and West. In honor of Kenneth Levy (Cambridge 2001): Greek Orthodox Theological Review 46:3-4 (2001), 368-81
15. Review article in Greek of the publication The Study of Medieval Chant: Paths and Bridges, East and West. In honor of Kenneth Levy (Cambridge 2001) accepted for publication in the edition of the periodical Periechema tes anatoles (Athens)
16. Review of the recordings of the First Pan-Hellenic Conference on the Psaltic Art, Theoria kai praxe tes psaltikes technes (Athens 2001), ‘Psalate synetos toi Theoi’ (Sing ye praises with understanding [Ps. 47. 7]): Greek Orthodox Theological Review 46:3-4 (2001) 392-95
17. Review of the published proceedings of the First Pan-Hellenic Conference on the Psaltic Art, Theoria kai praxe tes psaltikes technes (Athens 2001): Greek Orthodox Theological Review 46:3-4 (2001), 385-92
18. Translation: What Do You Know About Icons?: An æsthetic, practical and theological approach to Orthodox iconography in the form of questions and answers (Sacred Monastery of St John the Baptist, Kareas, 2001) [Order here]
19. PsalticNotes (Wilmington, North Carolina, 1994); a newsletter published in two editions with a circulation of 350 units
20. Music In the Church I (Wilmington, North Carolina, 1994); a circular published for use at the 24 July 1993 conference of the Southeastern Federation of Greek Orthodox Choirs and Musicians
21. Select Holy Week Troparia (Atlanta 1994); a small booklet with select English Great Week hymns in Byzantine notation
22. PsalticNotes, internet presence since 1994; pages on various aspects of the psaltic art, extensive links for research in theology, hymnology and musicology, lessons on learning the New Method of Byzantine ecclesiastical notation
23. Christ is Risen resurrectional apolytikion for the Great and Holy Pascha in English produced as a “pew card” with the traditional Greek melody transcribed into Western music staff notation for use in the context of worship (Atlanta 1995)
24. Development, publishing and implementation of music and worship programme for use at the 1995 Youth Summer Camp of the Diocese of Atlanta, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
25. The Great Vespers of the Nativity of our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ (Boston 1992); the stichera and troparia in English of the vespers of the Nativity of Christ (25 December) in Byzantine notation
26. Exercises In Byzantine Chant (Boston 1992); technique exercises for use in classes on Byzantine chant at Hellenic College, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
27. with Stylianos Markantonis and N. Michael Vaporis, Order of Service: 1992 (Brookline MA: Holy Cross Press, 1991); hemerologion with the diataxes for the divine services of the year 1992 in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
28. Praises in Time (Boston 1991); a practical introduction to the genera and categories of chant for use in classes on Byzantine chant at Hellenic College, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
29. Small Cherubikarion (Boston 1991); syntmeseis of the cherubika of Petros Lambadarios for the six weekdays in Byzantine notation
30. with Stylianos Markantonis and N. Michael Vaporis, Order of Service: 1991 (Brookline MA: Holy Cross Press, 1990); hemerologion with the diataxes for the divine services of the year 1991 in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America ^

Ongoing projects ^

1. Founder, President and Executive Director of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Psaltiki, Inc., which promotes the advancement of the Hellenic Psaltic Art and Hymnology by facilitating, cultivating and supporting its academic study, as well as initiating projects that transmit the psaltic heritage.
2. Board of Advisors for Phase Two Initiative of the Neumed and Ekphonetic Universal Manuscript Encoding Standard: NEUMES: a lossless data representation for digital transcription of Western medieval and Byzantine chant sources
3. Byzantine notation computer fonts project; the design and creation of Unicode® computer fonts
4. Konstantinos Byzantios typika: synoptic and electronic edition; a project proposed for publication in conjunction with the Patriarchal Institute of Patristic Studies—Mone Vlatadon
5. an English translation of Gr. Th. Stathis’ Hoi anagrammatismoi kai ta mathemata tes byzantines melopoiœïas [The anagrames and mathemata of Byzantine melopœïa] (Athens: Institute of Byzantine Musicology, 1979)
6. A new hymnographer: Geron Hilarion of the Skete of the Holy Apostles, Xenophontos, Mount Athos; his life and hymnographic work based on two autograph manuscripts from the skete’s library
7. Translation of the Protheoria from Geo. Biolakes’ Typikon tes tou Christou Megales Ekklesias
8. Translation of Chourmouzios Chartophylax’s corrections on Chrysanthos’ Eisagoge eis to theoretikon kai praktikon tes ekklesiastikes mousikes; National Library of Greece, Athens, MS 1916 ^